Nurture your minds with great thoughts. To believe in the heroic makes heroes.
BENJAMIN DISRAELIYou can tell the strength of a nation by the women behind its men.
More Benjamin Disraeli Quotes
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Things must be done by parties, not by persons using parties as tools.
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A great city, whose image dwells in the memory of man, is the type of some great idea. Rome represents conquest;
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There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.
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Faith hovers over the towers of Jerusalem; and Athens embodies the pre-eminent quality of the antique world, Art.
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The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches but to reveal to him his own.
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Power has only one duty – to secure the social welfare of the People.
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Every production of genius must be the production of enthusiasm.
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Courage is fire, and bullying is smoke.
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There is no act of treachery or meanness of which a political party is not capable; for in politics there is no honour.
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Finality is not the language of politics.
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Nine-tenths of the existing books are nonsense and the clever books are the refutation of that nonsense.
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The best security for civilization is the dwelling, and upon properly appointed and becoming dwellings depends, more than anything else, the improvement of mankind.
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Through perseverance many people win success out of what seemed destined to be certain failure.
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The governments of the present day have to deal not merely with other governments, with emperors, kings and ministers, but also with the secret societies which have everywhere their unscrupulous agents, and can at the last moment upset all the governments’ plans.
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Man is not the creature of circumstances, circumstances are the creatures of men. We are free agents, and man is more powerful than matter.
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